Combination puzzle and game



Dec. 3, 1 24- 1,520,651

W. C. IRWIN COMBINATION PUZZLE AND GAME Filed July 51, 192.5

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. IRWIN, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANKJ. HUNT, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

COMBINATION PUZZLE AND GAME.

Application filed July 31,

To all who 1m it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAM C. IRWIN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination Puzzlesandv Games, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a combination puzzle and gamecomprising a series of blocks or plates having an irregular outlinewhich blocks; must first be arranged into the layout of picture or planand then rearranged into the layout of another picture or planrepresenting the game.

These and other objects of this invention will be fully illustrated inthe drawing, described in the specification and pointed out in theclaims at the end thereof.

In. the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the combination puzzle and game in theform of the plan of a landscape which is adapted to be transformed intoa golf course.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the combination puzzle and gameillustrated in Figure 1 after it has been transformed into a golfcourse.

Figure 3 is a. detail perspective view of one of the blocks which makeup the plan of the landscape in the one form and the golf course in theother form.

In the several figures of the drawing like reference numerals indicatelike parts.

The combination game and puzzle forming the subject matter of my presentinvention is similar to the puzzles or games in which a picture is tobeformed by a series of blocks by placing them against one another.However my invention goes further than this, in that after one pictureis formed by the blocks, the blocks must be rearranged to form anotherslightly different picture or plan that can be used for the purpose ofplaying another kind of game by the person or persons assembling theplan or chart of the first game.

The form of the puzzle and game in which my invention is illustrated inthe drawing is that of a landscape that can be transformed into a fourhole golf course. It comprises a series of blocks 1 having irregularoutlines that can be assembled into the picture of the landscapeillustrated in Figure 1. For this purpose some of the blocks 1923.Serial No. 654,946.

are provided with a raised ridge 2 which when assembled as illustratedin Figure 1 form four diagonal raised lines leading from a raised circleformed in the center of the landscape.

Among the many irregular blocks 1 are a few that are similar to eachother and it is the object of this game to locate these blocks andrearrange them by interchanging their position. Thus the blocks marked 5may be interchanged with the block marked 5 the block marked 6interchanged with the block marked 6* and so on until the plan of thelandscape illustrated in Figure 1 has been transformed into the plan ofthe golf course illustrated in Figure 2. \Vhen the blocks areinterchanged in this manner some of the blocks having the raised ridgeformed on it are replaced by blocks without the ridges so that while abreach is formed in three of the diagonal ridges of the landscape ahazard in the form of a short ridge is formed in front of each of thefour holes of the golf course. The openings in the diagonal ridges ofthe landscape together with the opening of the central circle in thisway provide a continuous course over which a golf ball 7 may be rolledand successively played into each of the holes with the hazards formedby the shifted ridge sections obstructing the direct passage from onehole to the other.

I claim:

1. In a combination puzzle and. game, the combination of a single seriesof blocks having irregular outlines adapted to interlock with oneanother and having portions of a picture, plan or chart illustrated atthe top thereof, a number of said. blocks being duplicates of each otherin outline but having dissimilar portions of the picture, plan or chartprovided thereon, said duplicate blocks with their dissimilar portionsof the picture, plan or chart being adapted to be interchanged to formanother picture, plan or chart having the same com bined outline butillustrating a different picture, plan or chart with the same singleseries of blocks and the same portions of the picture, plan or chartprovided thereon.

2. In a combination puzzle and game, the combination of a single seriesof blocks having irregular outlines adapted to interlock with oneanother and having a portion of a pieture,,p lan;or1 chart provided atthe top ther.eof, saidbloelrs being adaptedl to be interchanged to formone predetermined. pictu e.plat-11. 1? chart nto another: p ture, plainor chart having the same. combin d; outline with the same single seriesof blocks and the same portions OfthQgPlCtllTQ, pla-nmm chart providedthereon.

3. In a. combination puzzle and, game, the combination of a singleseries of blocks having irregulau outlines adapted to interlock. with.one.- anothen and! having; portions Ofia pioture, plan. or-ohartprovided atr'the top.

thereof, e. predetermined picture,- plan 01*.-

chant adapted to be formed by the portions of. pictures, plane or chartcarried by said blQQkS a number of said blocks with its porti n .13 he pcture,v p1 an. or; chart being adaptedto; .be vi1 1ter'changabl'e' witheach other to form from said first predetermined pietnre plan or; charta second predermined picture, plan or chart having the samecombined'loutlinewdththe same single series of blocks and the sameportions of the picture, plan or chart provided; thereon.

In testimony whereof If my signature.

WIEEIAM G. IRWIN;

